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The next time you buy pears, try to think outside the Bosc.

WilderThais the Outdoorsman UPDATE: Just outside REI ManhBch entrance, took compass bearing of Office Depot sign – AT NIGHT. Dark, chilly.

NYC GEOLOGY: Ice Age glaciers pushed gunk to Brooklyn, then melted. Result: BayRIDGE,CrownHEIGHTS,HIGHlandPark overlook untouched FLATbush.

Zakir Hussain on tabla (in Bela Fleck/Edgar Meyer trio): The perfect cracking bite from the perfect sweetsour apple – times a million stars.

Got GOTHAM, a 1300-page behemoth of New York City history thru1898. I’ve allotted 100 days. So far: receding glaciers & prehistoric trails.

Project AH-DOG: A Hundred Days of ‘Gotham,’ the heaviest and longest book I will have ever read. History of NYC through 1898. I’m up to xiv.

http://twitpic.com/l1pvh – why is the sky blue

http://twitpic.com/kxg4k – Lisa

uh . . . team? . . . could you try returning the ball now and then? . . . Next time I’m NAMING NAMES.

==> . . . and in his later years you’ll often see him leaning idly against walls, and occasionally even sprawling out on the ground.